walking backwards

ushi no toki mairi, a traditional Japanese practice where a person visits (参(まい)り (mairi)) a shrine at approximately 2 AM in the morning (丑(うし)の時(とき) (ushi no toki)) in order to nail a straw effigy of a person (藁人形(わらにんぎょう) (waraningyō)) to a tree and wish for that person's death

Alternative form of アウシュヴィッツ (Aushuvittsu, “Auschwitz”)

Auschwitz (a city in Poland)

牛小屋: cowshed, byre, cattle barn

(historical) a Japanese envoy to Tang China

tide

海松: a type of seaweed / 水松: a type of seaweed

見る: to see / 看る: to look after, take care of / 観る: to view (flowers, a movie) / 視る: to see (an area struck by a disaster) / 診る: to examine (medical) / 回る: to turn, revolve / 廻る: to turn, revolve

見た: saw